Article 5YX97 AMD is finally putting its best CPU cores in Chromebooks with Ryzen 5000 C-Series

AMD is finally putting its best CPU cores in Chromebooks with Ryzen 5000 C-Series

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Sean Hollister
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Believe it or not, there was no such thing as an AMD Chromebook until 2019. Also, the first ones were sluggish, and whi;e AMD's second stab at Chromebooks was quite a bit better, they still contained rebranded CPUs whose Zen cores were years out of date. Today, AMD is putting a better foot forward - with the new Ryzen 5000 C-Series chips, including the first 8-core high-performance x86 processor for Chromebooks."

I mean, AMD's still not putting its best foot forward, because these APUs will still sport last-gen AMD Vega graphics rather than the newest RDNA 2 stuff you'll find in the company's Ryzen 6000 chips (not to mention the PS5, Xbox Series X, and Steam Deck). And the new Ryzen 7 5825C, Ryzen 5 5625C, and Ryzen 3 5425C aren't...

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